Monday, July 24, 2017

rubber ducky

(not on the day thousands were trapped on the highway when it was closed for 11 hours due to an accident, thank god!) (photo courtesy of cp24 news)

The harbour has changed a lot since the days in the early 1900s of this postcard

it's on the southern tip of Georgian Bay

but what we were looking for was this

at the foot of King and First Streets

The giant rubber ducky that has garnered so many complaints from those who have no desire for fun and silliness in their lives. This was her first visit to Canada and she made her appearance for the Canada 150 celebrations. (just google rubber duck toronto and scroll past the newer stories of how spectacularly successful it was to the weeks before she arrived and read all the whining about the cost, what a duck has to do with Canada's sesquicentennial, the cost! ... ad nauseum)

She is big. Six storeys tall. It takes almost 3 hours to inflate.

And it was a LOT less crowded here than in Toronto (hence the 3 hour drive)

Keeping the duck company is this swan sculpture

which celebrates the efforts of those who helped reintroduce the trumpeter swans to Georgian Bay. The swan sculpture is more life size.

Haha. Thanks for sharing. We read about your Duck kerfuffle even in Malaysia. Canadians should celebrate that most of your news are of this nature instead of the terrible things making news in so many other countries around the world. (LGS)